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AI is going to backfire badly (Blind)
- ssupbruh (Uber): Already happening. I don’t use Netflix much, but some Google apps like YouTube already feel like they are someone’s WIP branch build. Meta was abysmal even before AI so the change is not as noticeable there, but still.
- BroCoderz (Apple): Yes. This is called poor leadership.
- COck45 (Snowflake): You’re right. Unfortunately, constant fear mongering campaigns from AI labs and unqualified extroverts amplifying them brought us where we are now. But this madness faces reality — people give up on the nonsense such as spec-driven development without code reviews since it doesn’t work. Let them fail.
Anthropic’s team suggest SWEs will need to change careers (Blind)
- gudtime (Netflix): Wake me when Anthropic lays off all of their SWE
- TC1Billi (Indeed): Notice how all the researchers who claim it’s going to destroy the world and quit always do so around vest 🤣
- hljsnw88 (Amazon): Let’s just say that economists tend to have a track record of not being able to predict anything beyond what’s for lunch.
Why would anyone ever leave Google? (Blind)
- MrCurryMan (Google): Stuck in a bad team with no growth prospects. Fear of becoming irrelevant.
- pDlG34 (Google): Pretty simple - no upside. People who left and joined Anthropic 2 or 3 years ago will have absolutely dwarfed even lifetime earnings of a top Google SWE career.
- sontoall (Google): Because working in ads for over 3 years and no promotion makes a person go crazy
China Is Ditching Touchscreens For Essential Controls In New Cars (r/technology)
- mvw2: Good. Screens were stupid.
- The14thWarrior: Let’s hope China forces others to do the same in a cascading effect.
- slick7studios: Imho, a car built with the structure and safety as modern day 2026, with the electronics integration of 1998 is something I would buy right now.
Amazon workers on food stamps have tripled despite its record revenue—and it’s just the latest evidence of the new economy of shrinking labor shares (r/technology)
- No_Intern5991: It’s not broken. It’s working perfectly as intended, which is even worse.
- omnichronos: When you are employed and receive food stamps, you should be required to report your employer so that the government can charge the employer double the amount you receive. This would incentivize them to pay higher wages.
- mahaanus: You can make arguments that minimum wage is bad - and some of them are actually good and there is research that shows the negative effects of raising the minimum wage. That goes out the window when there are government subsidies for people below a certain threshold. If they’re working Amazon should be paying them enough so they’re not on the dole, otherwise Amazon is just outsourcing part of the salary to the taxpayers.